Critical research methodologies : ethics and responsibilities / edited by Rose Ann Torres, Dionisio Nyaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torres, Rose Ann, editor.

Nyaga, Dionisio, editor.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 181.

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 181

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

sociology of knowledge.

critical theories (dialectical critiques).

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

We live in a society that promotes the universal process of producing knowledge and truth making as fundamental social process. Such promotion of universality seems to subjugate others forms of knowing rendering them invisible, unintelligible, and ineligible and subsequently outside the community of knowing. This has material and symbolic consequences in terms of how research informs policy and subsequent victimization of those who live, and experience subjugation meted by Western truth making universalism. In the words of Foucault, this book is an insurrection of subterranean and clandestine knowledges in ways that provide not just an alternative process of knowledge production but affirms local knowledge as necessary in production of a just society. The book looks at research as a social justice and transformational process that should speak of people's ways of live without necessarily streamlining them into numbers. The book is a critically reflexive project in terms of returning processes of knowledge production to the local space rather than imagining them as entirely centred in the structure. To imagine this book as reflexive exercise is to break boundaries of knowledges in ways that come to imagine how local performs global in very complicated and complex ways. This book is a resurrection of local knowledges steeped in creative and imaginative reflexive methodologies that come to reorient how we come to know what we know, the values and realities that mark what we know and the how of knowledge production. It centres subjugated voices and knowledges as fundamental in production of knowledge.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Critical Research Methodologies

Rose Ann Torres, Dionisio Nyaga

Section One: Overview of Critical Research Methodologies

Chapter I: Critical Research Methodologies: Positionality, Ethics, Power

Dionisio Nyaga

Chapter II: Research Methodologies: History, Issues, Tensions

Rose Ann Torres

Chapter III: Torn Apart: Racialized Feelings and the Ethics of Doing Research with One's Own Community

Fritz Pino

Section 2: Types of Critical Research Methodologies

Chapter IV: Critical Ethnography: Principles and Ethics

Chapter V: My Blackness is African: Looking at Kenyan Man through a Black/Afrocentric Methodologies

Chapter VI: Storytelling: A Critical Narrative Approach

Chapter VII: Critical Research as Inconsolable Mourning

Section 3: Application of Critical Research Methodologies

Chapter VIII: A Black Woman's Perspective on Leadership & Risk-Taking: Exploring Research Methodologies That Can Transcend the Discourse of Mainstream Leadership Thought

Elizabeth Charles

Chapter IX: Accessing Math Anxiety in Male Elementary Teachers: A Critical Research Approach in Mathematics Experience as Learners and as Teachers

Khulood Agha Khan

Chapter X: Connecting the "Here and Now" with "What Could Be": A Critical Analysis of Imagination as Method engaging Queer futurities

Katie Bannon

Chapter XI: Black Afrocentric Methodologies: Beyond Colour-Coated Investigation

Afterword:

Using Critical Research Methodologies: The significance of Reflexivity, Resistance, and Response

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44556-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004445567 DOI